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We’ve been holding back a few beers for various reasons, but are delighted to announce FOUR, count ’em, brand new brews released in to the wild today … As Lime Gose By: a lime and bergamot goseThe Watchful Tree: a Scotch Ale with silver birch Thirty 50: an experimental IPA brewed for Simon’s birthdayVianne: a […]

We are thrilled to have been invited to send a beer up to Wigan Beer Festival 2019, running from Thursday 28 February to Saturday 2nd March. They’ve chosen As Lime Gose By, our sour beer made with Indian white limes, pink Himalayan rock salt, and Calabrian bergamot. The result is a refreshing citrus taste with […]

It might have felt like a long time coming, but we are now selling beers to the world! OK, only a small corner of the world at the moment but we’re in business. On Saturday 1st December we announced our arrival at a very packed Beer Gonzo. (As Jon pointed out it was only a […]

It’s all about quality and it’s check, check and check again here at Mashionistas. For me, I think this might be the hardest part of the brewing game. Here we have an 6% IPA straight out of the keg. Based on a simple recipe of Pale Malt, Wheat and Oats generously dry hopped with Mosaic […]

So we’ve made a beer. Our first one, a Brut IPA, was always going to be the one with all the mistake so it’s possible this one won’t see the light of day. The great thing is with brewing, of course, is that we won’t know until we try it – probably in about a […]

Just as I was beginning to think it might never happen, the final missing piece of the brewery has arrived and we are, at last, ready to brew. We need to tell you all about our first brew day but before we do I know some of you will be interested in the kit. I […]

It was with some sadness that we headed to Berkeley; grumpy kids the night before meant we didn’t get to go to the funky-looking brewery in San Jose that we wanted to visit (Uproar) plus we were moving into our last few days of holiday.We’d decided to visit Berkeley because we wanted to eat at […]

We almost didn’t make it to Firestone Walker – we’d spent the morning at the fabulous Hearst Castle, built by billionaire newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, then popped to the nearby beach to marvel at the elephant seals lazing in the sun (spoiler, they’re huge!). Our kids were a bit grumpy and we almost pushed […]

On a day free of the sprogs, thanks to Disney, we headed off to the coast to visit Battleship Iowa and then on to Newport Beach for some whalewatching. To celebrate the many dolphins we saw, and the humpback whale which obliging swam under our tiny boat, we stopped in Newport Beach Brewing Co for […]